Art Of Tracy Verdugo Blog

In my Sacred Marks workshops I love to share the Aboriginal concept of Dadirri ~Deep Listening. Aboriginal writer Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann describes deep listening as follows: “NGANGIKURUNGKURR means ‘Deep Water Sounds’. Ngangikurungkurr is the name of my tribe. The word can be broken up into three parts: Ngangi means word or sound, Kuri means water, and kurr means deep. So the name of my people means ‘the Deep Water Sounds’ or ‘Sounds of the Deep’. Miriam-Rose speaks of: “a special quality of my people. I believe it is the most important. It is our most unique gift. It is perhaps the greatest gift we can give to our fellow Australians. In our language this quality is called dadirri. It is inner, deep listening and quiet, still awareness. Dadirri recognises the deep spring that is inside us. We call on it and it calls to us. This is the gift that Australia is thirsting for. It is something like what you call ‘co...

On Saturday mi amor walks by me as I sit at my usual spot in front of the computer,  working on a hundred things at once,  and says........ "No work tomorrow ok? Lets go for a picnic somewhere.   I cant believe you've never been to Steamers Beach...." a slight sense of anxiety passes over me....I have become accustomed to filling my days with work,  grateful that I have the luxury of doing the things I love and calling it work,  frenetic about all the possibilities and all I want to put out into the world.....  I have forgotten what it is to actually take a whole day off and then.... a sense of relief washes over me..... Yes, I say. That would be wonderful! 8 kms later.... a day of breathing in the beauty,  the simplest of picnics on the most gorgeous of beaches....  and I am feeling totally replenished. I want every Sunday to be a new adventure! Hold me to it ok? Forget not that the earth delights to ...